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50 Heller Seekirchen
| Issuer | Landgemeinde Seekirchen (Market Town of Seekirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green on buff paper notgeld voucher with an ornate border of fine scrollwork and dotted chain motifs framing the entire face. A detailed landscape vignette occupies the central field, rendering a panoramic view of the town of Seekirchen with its church spire, rooftops, and surrounding trees set against rolling hills. The denomination numeral '50' appears in circular cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the issuer inscription along the top and the value '50 Heller' in bold Gothic lettering at the lower centre above an anti-counterfeiting notice. |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff paper reverse enclosed within a simple double-rule rectangular border, with the entire field occupied by a typeset text block in Gothic script explaining the legal basis and redemption terms of the voucher issue. The issuing authority and the signature of the Bürgermeister appear in bold Gothic type at the foot of the text block, with the printer's imprint centred below the border. |
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Seekirchen am Wallersee, a small market town in the Salzburg Flachgau, issued this Heller note as part of the broader Austrian Notgeld phenomenon that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The postwar coin shortage was severe enough that hundreds of Austrian municipalities — many far smaller than Seekirchen — were forced to print their own fractional currency simply to make change. E. u. K. Müller of Salzburg handled a considerable volume of this regional emergency printing work during 1920.
Bürgermeister Mösl's single signature authorizes the note — no countersignature, which was common at this municipal level.